Still explaining his declaration that NATO was “obsolete” during the 2016 presidential campaign, a declaration other NATO leaders are griping about, President Trump has told an interviewer that he didn’t really know much about what NATO was at the time.
Trump said the first time he was asked about NATO was on CNN, and that he was caught off guard because he “wasn’t in government” and never had to learn what NATO was, saying no one had ever asked him about NATO when he was building a building.
Trump says he reasoned that NATO was obsolete because it doesn’t fight terrorism, because “back when they did NATO there was no such thing as terrorism.” Which of course is not true, but does seem to support Trump’s narrative that he knew pretty much nothing.
Trump went on to claim that NATO isn’t obsolete anymore, not because he learned anything, but because they heard his malarkey about terrorism and changed their policy to focus on terrorism. This appears less to be him backing down on the claim of obsolescence than underscoring how little he knew, and continues to know, about NATO.
What he really means, I take it is– “the establishment got to me.”
Trump: I Didn’t Know Much About NATO When I Said NATO Is Obsolete
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Trump is a lying sack of sh*t.
Truth is, he was bought off by the corrupt warmongering establishment.
It is truly amazing that such an ignorant, illiterate, erratic, morally vacuous and dishonest fantasist could have achieved the presidency. l once thought that we had hit the bottom of the barrel with George W. Bush, little did I know. Our entire government is losing its last shred of credibility.
We have always just elected human beings . We need some thing better
So, I ask one of my Trumpista neighbors, “Well, Ernie, how’s that Trump-thing working out? It’s nearly 100 days and Trump has pretty much trash-canned all of his campaign promises.”
Ernie was unwilling to discuss his current state of mind. I think he’s trying to convince himself he got “Trumped” but, as is typical, he’s looking for someone to blame for naivete.
FYI, Ernie teaches poly/sci at a nearby military university.
“I did not know much” is the epitome of this president.
Trump admits he did not know much about NATO at the time he said they were not necessary any longer .. I think he still does not know much about what NATO does . NATO is the army of the NWO and has done everything in Europe the NAZI’s did . As a matter of fact Russia and China can’t see any difference in the NATO or NAZI armies that are confronting them . They use much the same people and have same desire to rule the world .
Trump duped his supporters who put him into the oval office, he turned out to be a buffoon who sold out to the zionist neocon fascist on the day of his inauguration, and that’s a damn shame !